Mandy El-Sayegh Figure One
Figured Ground (2021) is an in situ installation made up of newspaper pages, which the artist lays the floor and then covers in transparent latex. She then layers them with silkscreen prints of code names for Israeli military operations, and fragments of Chinese and Arabic calligraphy. Over this base, the artist applies a gestural wash of white paint, forming a semi-transparent ‘veil’ that holds together the fragments of image and text.














